Chapter Fifteen
Śrīla A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda The Revered Spiritual Master of Çréla Gour Govinda Swami
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any devotees said, “We will never get those days back, the days in 1977 in Çré Våndävana-dhäma, when Çré Çrémad Gour Govinda Swami Mahäräja came to see Çréla Prabhupäda.” At that time, Çréla Prabhupäda would speak to him for a long time, very intimately. Many saw him as a very brilliant looking sannyäsé. Çré Çrémad Gour Govinda Mahäräja was so humble. At the end of one of his visits to Çréla Prabhupäda in Våndävana, he was intending to go to Mathurä by bus and then catch a train to Calcutta, and from there on to Bhubaneswar, but somehow Çréla Prabhupäda could foresee that and he sent a devotee to find out from Çré Çrémad Gour Govinda Mahäräja how he would go to Mathurä. When the devotee reported back to Çréla Prabhupäda that he was planning to travel by bus, Çréla Prabhupäda said, “No, no, no, no! Arrange a car for him”. And he then arranged that
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